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This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They were all former students...
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[2015]
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vi, 122 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
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Shows readers how rebel soldiers fought in horrific conditions while their families faced their own hardships for the sake of freedom. Students examine wartime propaganda to discover the truth about events leading up to the war, and engage in vibrant debate, strategic planning, and literary deconstruction to understand the official documents upon which America is founded.
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[2015]
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12 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 13 x 13 cm + 1 Parent Guide.
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This boxed set includes 12 full - color phonics readers featuring the pups of Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol! Each book features a specific phonics concept that will give boys and girls ages 3 to 7 the tools they need to begin reading on their own.
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"Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding and to think of intellectual writing as an adaptive and social activity, with a clear set of strategies--a set of moves--for participating"--Provided by publisher.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned astronomer and author of Cosmos comes a “powerful [and] stirring defense of informed rationality” (The Washington Post Book World) in a world where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace.
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER • “Glorious . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From...
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER • “Glorious . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From...
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c2003
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12 videodiscs (ca. 735 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A complete program for teaching English. The program introduces over 2000 words and all basic English sentence structure.
A complete video program for teaching English which introduces over 2000 words and all basic English sentence structure in units of self instruction.
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[2015]
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321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples--from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares--this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those formulas and equations that once left your head spinning. You'll learn the key ideas of classic areas of mathematics like arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry,...
13) Evening class
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In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others. By the author of The Copper Beach.
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[2015]
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xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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"According to the Common Core State Standards, which have been adopted by 46 states, students must develop literacy skills not just in English/Language Arts but across all content areas. This means that educators must teach literacy--reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language--in subjects like Math, Science, Social Studies, and Technology/Computer Science. This book help teachers understand what literacy looks like in math, science, and technology...
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2004
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xv, 342 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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MATH MAGIC revised edition is for all of us who need and want to improve our understanding of math. Flansburg makes math what you may never have imagined it to be: easy and fun.
Scott Flansburg's heartfelt belief is that there are no “mathematical illiterates,” just people who have not learned how to make math work for them. But millions of otherwise successful adults are afraid to balance their checkbooks and don't know how to figure...
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2019.
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"Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has become a soul-crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat himself to a tour of the world's most breathtaking architectural sites. Perhaps not surprisingly, Louie gets waylaid on his very first stop in Rome--ludicrously,...
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My weirder school volume 8
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A local college professor comes to Ella Mentry School to help students learn basic history and improve their scores on a standardized test, using some very unusual techniques.
